Chapter 339: The End of a Dynasty

The nervous Wang Qiang finally came out of the frustration of letting Duoduo go, and now he has a new task, that is, to organize the troops to prepare for the entry into the city.

Luo Jian didn't like these shows, but before Zuo Maodi entered Beijing, he gave Luo Jian advice to the people of Yibang and others, in order to enhance the confidence of the people of Gyeonggi in the Nanjing government and the national defense army, a majestic and majestic entry into the city was necessary.

This is not difficult for Wang Qiang, the Seventh Division used to emphasize queue training, but now it is just a recombination, Luo Jian has watched it a few times, although it cannot be compared with the big military parade in another time and space, but in this era, the phalanx that the Seventh Division walked out of is shocking enough.

Yesterday, Luo Jian already knew the news that Fan Wencheng had died in the chaos, and the Seventh Division found Fan Wencheng's body when cleaning the battlefield, which was no longer human, but many prisoners confirmed that the tattered clothes were what Fan Wencheng was wearing when he left Beijing.

The death of the big traitor made everyone happy, but Luo Jian thought deeper, even if Duoduo ran back to Liaodong, without Fan Wencheng on the side, Duoduo may not be able to do anything, the current era has undergone extremely profound changes, and the advent of the era of hot weapons has passed the era when a group of people can form a climate.

Zilharang knew that the Manchu court was not a peace negotiation with the Wehrmacht, but an unconditional surrender, and he did not dare to have any objection to the conditions put forward by Zuo Maodi, these Qing soldiers were about to run out of food in the capital, and if they did not leave the city, the capital would probably be broken up by hungry soldiers.

At six o'clock in the morning of the 28th day of the fourth lunar month, all the gates of the capital were finally opened, under the supervision of various departments of the National Defense Forces. The Qing troops in the capital drove out of Beijing one after another. Assemble at the location designated by the Wehrmacht outside the city. By 5 p.m., all 50,000 or 60,000 Qing soldiers had surrendered to the Wehrmacht.

However, the first thing Luo Jian had to do was not to enter the city of Beijing, Zuo Maodi had already sent someone out to say that the Qing soldiers and people in the capital were about to run out of food, and they must organize food to enter Beijing as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the Nanjing government had already prepared, and it was not difficult to maintain the small population of the capital with grain and grass transported through the Grand Canal.

Carts loaded with grain were the first to enter Beijing from several city gates, and a large amount of grain was the best stabilizer for people's hearts, and many people who were ready to flee the city when martial law was lifted in the capital stopped.

Yi Bang took thousands of people to distribute food in Beijing for two days. The hearts of the people in Beijing have finally stabilized, and some pedestrians have begun to appear on the streets, and many shops have reopened.

The first day of the fifth month has finally arrived, and today is the day of the earlier finalization of the entrance ceremony to the city, Zuo Maodi has already returned to the station of the Seventh Division outside the city, and he is going to accompany Luo Jian into the city.

The 3,000 soldiers selected from the Seventh Division got up before dawn, and before they set off, they had to conduct one last drill, although Luo Jian did not attach much importance to the ceremony, but the soldiers regarded this entry into the city as a kind of honor. One by one, they spontaneously practiced hard.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on the first day of the fifth month, the grand entrance ceremony finally began.

Heaven is beautiful. Today's sun is not too big, according to Luo Jian's meaning, it is most convenient to enter the city from Guangqu Gate, but Zuo Maodi does not do it, although Guangqu Gate is also one of the main gates of Beijing City, but its status is not as good as Yongding Gate, Luo Jian can not twist Zuo Maodi, agreed, Luo Jian is afraid that Zuo Maodi will ask to enter the city from Desheng Gate, and the circle around it is too big.

The people of the capital finally had a full meal in the past two days, and when they heard that the national defense army was going to hold a ceremony to enter the city, they were surrounded by onlookers inside and outside the Yongding Gate early in the morning.

If you want to say that the army enters the city, I am afraid that no city can compare with the city of Beijing. In the early years, not to mention him, in recent years, Beijing City is regarded as the head of the city to change the banner of the king, from the Ming Dynasty to the Dashun and then to the Qing Dynasty, it is common for the army to enter and exit the city of Beijing, but the people found that the national defense army entered the city this time is still quite different from the past.

In fact, the people of Beijing have long known that the Nanjing government and the national defense army are very different from the previous imperial court, and in recent years, the Qing court has been afraid of Nanjing, and it is absolutely impossible to mention that side in public in Beijing, but people are so strange, the more forbidden they are, the stronger everyone's curiosity is, and there are more and more people who discuss and inquire in private.

For example, most of the people in the south can eat their stomachs, there are a lot of new crops in the south, and there are several huge warships in the south that often go to sea.

Although when Princess Changping was in the capital, almost no one among the people had seen her, but now that the princess has gone overseas, the people in the capital feel as if she was married to her daughter, and they are always worried about it.

"It's coming! Here it comes! The people in front shouted softly, not daring to raise their voices.

The first to enter Andingmen is a cavalry team of 120 people, four horses in a row, iron hooves on the bluestone slab, making a crisp sound, the cavalry is not very neat, the training of war horses is incomparable, if you want to train uniformly, these days are not enough.

But the cavalry on the horse was strong enough, and the people of the capital, who were accustomed to seeing the elite cavalry full of people, looked at these knights with quite critical eyes, and many of them let out a "tsk" of admiration, which is not surprising, these 120 people were selected from tens of thousands of troops.

Luo Jian and Zuo Maodi, accompanied by Yi Bangcai and several division commanders, rode behind the cavalry, and the appearance of this group caused a commotion among the people of the capital.

Someone was about to kneel down on the side of the road, and someone next to him pulled him to remind him, "Have you forgotten the notice posted in the city yesterday?" "Yesterday's proclamation made it clear that no one is allowed to kneel.

"The 'Angel' Governor is here!" More suppressed voices rang out in the crowd.

Luo Jian didn't wave to the people, just walked quietly, and then he remembered the very famous sentence, "We are here to enter Beijing to take the exam!" ”

The appearance of the 3,000 infantry of the 7th Division really shocked the people of the capital.

The Yongding Gate is wide enough, and the ten-by-ten square is not too crowded at all, and the phalanx does not surprise the people, but what shocks everyone is that there is only one voice when the ten phalanxes walk.

When the infantry team walked past the Xiannong Altar and the Temple of Heaven, they walked past singing military songs, which made the people of the capital feel so fresh, but what the Wehrmacht sang could not be heard clearly. Fortunately, at this time, someone began to send small orders in the crowd. If you are literate, you will pick it up and read it to the people around you.

"Three major disciplines and eight points of attention", "the army and the common people". "Unity is strength", the officials in the capital may have heard of it, they can see the Nanjing government newspapers, and these songs have been published in the newspapers in the past, but the vast majority of the people have heard and seen them for the first time, and many people begged the readers to read them again.

After passing the Zhengyang Gate, we arrived at the inner city of Beijing, and the cavalry team did not enter the inner city. At Zhengyangmen, it was divided to both sides, and only half of the infantry team entered the inner city, and the troops that entered the inner city began to disperse throughout the inner city, and they would impose martial law on the inner city.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, all the people in the inner city of the capital were moved to the outer city, and all the inner cities were inhabited by the Manchus. Now these people will be cleared out of the inner city, and the people who have been forcibly occupied will be able to return to their old homes in the near future.

When he arrived at Chengtianmen (now Tiananmen Square), Luo Jian saw a startling scene.

Hundreds of Manchu civil and military ministers knelt in several rows in front of the Chengtian Gate, led by the Manchu regent Zierharang.

Luo Jian looked at Zuo Maodi with a puzzled look, and Zuo Maodi looked at Luo Jian with some innocence. Luo Jian's meaning is obvious, and he has already explained it. There is no need for these people to come and plead guilty, Zuo Maodi's meaning is also very clear, I told them, they are coming by themselves.

"Arise, all of you. Now that you've gathered here today, I'm here to say a few words to you. Luo Jian dismounted, walked to the Chengtian Gate, and said to the Manchu ministers who were kneeling on the ground.

"We are all guilty, I beg the Metropolitan Governor to forgive!" The ministers who were kneeling on the ground did not get up, only Zilharang raised his head and said to Luo Jian.

"Whether you are guilty or not, I don't count, the Nanjing government will set up a special investigation agency to investigate you, if there are indeed a lot of evil deeds committed to the people, their own court will try you according to the law, how to punish will also be decided by the law, you all go home first, no one can leave without receiving notice, you go!"

Luo Jian didn't want to say more to these people, the Manchu court did not accept the conditions of the Nanjing government and the national defense force at the beginning, and now it is only unconditional surrender, except for a very few of them, which are basically not among the pardons, this policy was discussed by Luo Jian in the Nanjing government as early as last year.

"Get up! I've told you a long time ago, the Metropolitan Governor is the most disliked to kneel, even if you commit a capital crime and will be beheaded tomorrow, today I hope you have a little backbone and straighten your waist! Seeing that none of the kneeling people on the ground got up, Zuo Maodi stepped forward and said angrily.

"Let's go! If they want to kneel, let them kneel, let's go into the Forbidden City and have a look. Luo Jian saw that no one stood up after Zuo Maodi said it, and he was really annoyed, so he said to Zuo Maodi.

As soon as he walked through the Chengtian Gate, Luo Jian stopped, looking at the Forbidden City, which was not quite the same as the Forbidden City in later generations, Luo Jian seemed to have traveled through time and space again, and all kinds of feelings came up from his heart.

Luo Jian knew that entering the Forbidden City also meant the end of the Manchu court, and the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for 296 years in another time and space, ended after only five years of the arrival of several of his own people, Luo Jian didn't know if the history books of later generations would write the Manchu Dynasty into the history books as a dynasty in Chinese history.

The Qing Dynasty in his own time and space can last for nearly three hundred years, in fact, there is also a reason for its existence, if you compare the Manchu Qing with other dynasties and generations, in fact, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty are not worse than other dynasties, but Luo Jian does not regret that he has ended this dynasty now.

The biggest problem of the Manchu rulers in their time and space is not how to enslave and oppress the Han people, which dynasty rulers are basically like this, Luo Jian thinks that their biggest sin is not here, if Luo Jian wants to say the reason why he must destroy the Qing Dynasty, Luo Jian will find at least two.

The first is that capitalism had begun to sprout in the south at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and if it were not for the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, perhaps these shoots would have grown into towering trees, and the development of science and technology might not have stagnated. This can be seen from the fact that after the establishment of the Nanjing government, industry and commerce began to flourish with a little support.

The second reason was the hatred and resistance of the Manchu rulers to advanced science and technology. The Manchurians have always boasted that they would immediately take over the world, and after entering the customs, they strictly prohibited the development of firearms. The XX Emperor claims to be a scholar of China and the West, but in fact, he just has a little curiosity, and he is only "only allowed to set fires to the governors, and the people are not allowed to light lamps".

As for the later seclusion and closure of the country, and got up to be arrogant, claiming to be **** on the country, needless to say.

"Xinghua, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Luo Jian was hidden in a stupor, Zuo Maodi asked curiously. (To be continued.) )