The soldiers surrounded Yixue for several days, and the master had expected this day for a long time, but these students between the ages of seven and eight and thirteen or fourteen could not suppress their emotions and doubts.

The immature voice sounded: "The master is not the red coat that kills officers and soldiers, why do you want to arrest the master!?" ”

The master chuckled, and said while tidying up his clothes: "It's not that it's aimed at me alone, but in the eyes of some people in this Great Qing Kingdom, people like Master and me are more hateful than the red clothes, the red clothes only kill officers and soldiers, but the master and I have a murderous heart." The Master is gone, and there is no end in sight. ”

Some students choked up, and they had some impressions of Master's words, in this town, there are no doctors from Yinghua, and the priests of the Heavenly Temple and the gentlemen of Yixue are all the targets of the local officials and masters. Before, it was taken in the situation between the north and the south, and I didn't dare to embarrass it openly, but now that the red clothes are coming, those people are going to run away, and of course they will poison the people they hate before they run away.

Why is the master so hated, the master said a little mysterious, and some older and precocious young men said: "Master is saying that they think that the master is bewitching us, and want us to also vote for Yinghua, against this Qing Dynasty?" ”

The master shook his head slowly: "No, they hate the master for helping you polish your eyes so that you can look directly at your heart." ”

Looking at these children and even teenagers, the master took a deep breath, and the words that had been suppressed in his heart on weekdays gushed out: "The master wants to tell you today that Yinghua is not a matter of whether you can't vote for it, and Yinghua is your country. When the red clothes came, they welcomed you into the country, not forced you to switch from the Qing Dynasty. ”

The students were stunned, and the Master continued, "You always think that the Master is a person from another country, but the Master never treats you as an outsider. Why did the Master teach you to read and read? Because you are fellow citizens of the Master, yes, we are all Chinese people. Yinghua is another dynasty that has continued in the past dynasties of China, and it is the country of Zhengshuo under the righteousness of China. ”

He pointed to the top of the students' heads: "The officials of the Qing Dynasty often come here to talk about the Hadith, and they are the Manchu and Han families when they open and close their mouths. The Qing Dynasty is also Huaxia, but if you touch your head, is the braid on it Huaxia? ”

This does not need to be touched, like the ancients who jumped out of the painting, the master stood in front of him, and the students were to themselves. I have long been ashamed of what is on the head of my family, and I put on my hat when I have the opportunity.

"Yinghua shaved his hair in red, such as Zhao Ren's Hufu riding and shooting, that is a martial artist's business, in addition, I have been in China for thousands of years, and my clothes and hairstyles have never changed. A hundred years ago. The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, let the Chinese people make a Manchurian hairstyle, and then talk about the Manchu and Han families, one family is indeed one family, and the Manchu people are the masters. China is a slave. This Great Qing Kingdom is by no means the country of China, not your country! ”

This truth is self-explanatory, but it can't stand the Manchurians and traitors for a hundred years, and the northerners regard this Qing country as their own country, when the country of China was restored to the north of the country. There are countless people who are confused by this, and they want to sacrifice their lives to defend the Qing country, why can't they remember. The ancestors of a hundred years ago were still defending the Ming Dynasty, and they did not share the sky with the Qing Dynasty? ”

The master gradually became excited: "Yinghua and all the middle schools are saying that Shanxi Province is full of thieves, and they are all two Tartars, which is incorrigible. Master, I and many other people with lofty ideals don't think so. Jin merchants in Shanxi. In the Ming Dynasty, it was full of people to make a fortune, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was attached to the full of people to suck blood. These are the ones who will be reckoned with and will be held accountable. A hundred years ago, the anti-Qing trend of the people of Shanxi was in full swing, just like the current red clothes, so that the Qing soldiers were trapped in the lonely city of Taiyuan, and even the Manchu Datong general Jiang Huang was forced by the situation to oppose the Qing Dynasty together, your ancestors are worthy of China! ”

"The people of Shanxi now, just like you, are blinded by the Manchus and traitors, and are confused by the demagogic words from childhood to adulthood, as long as you polish your eyes and let you know the truth that you are born to know, you will definitely be enlightened!"

The master's eyes were shining, and his words stirred the hearts of the students: "When you are enlightened, Huaxia will have been re-established in Shanxi, you don't need to come in red, here is a change of heaven and earth, here is Yinghua!" ”

After a long silence, the students blushed and shouted.

"We are not full of thieves! Not two tartars! ”

"My grandfather's grandfather was still a Ming army fighting Tartars, my grandfather said it!"

He greeted his classmates even more excitedly: "We can't let those two Tartars take away the master, we have to protect the master!" ”

The master stopped the student in a deep voice: "The master came from Fujian, thousands of miles away, and he already has the heart to sacrifice his life and martyrdom!" The way of the Master, that is, to enable you to learn and be courteous, to be self-reliant, and to be able to defend Huayi, how can you be hurt for the sake of protecting the Master? Only by living well can you accomplish the Master's deeds! Don't worry, the Master is gone, the red coat will soon come, and there will be a new Master who will continue to teach you to read and behave. ”

Seeing the master out of the classroom, the students choked up.

The young students were appeased, but at the gate of Yixue, the fourteen or fifteen-year-old students were furious, and they were pushing and pushing with the soldiers of the Green Battalion to prevent them from taking away more than a dozen masters in Yixue, while the masters tried their best to appease the students.

Most of these masters were born in the normal department of the Yinghua Imperial Examination, and they took teaching and educating people as their life's work, and they resolutely put themselves in the enemy territory, in order to practice the belief that the north and the south are all Chinese. Compared with other people in the country, although he is still sour, when the disaster comes, he does not lose his blood in red.

Shocked by the generosity of the master and the anger of the students, the leading general became more and more weak-hearted, and when the mountain chief solemnly warned him to pay attention to the unforgivable crimes listed in the British North China Expedition, the general said with sweat on his forehead: "When the villain was promoted to the rank of general, he was forced into the green flag of the Han army, and when he heard that the Celestial Empire did not pardon the banner man, the villain wanted to make meritorious service, and he was afraid of ......."

This means that the mountain chief is clear, and now there is no Han Chinese in the military and political officials above the middle level of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were Han people before, and they all passively and actively entered the green flag of the Han army, and the policy carried out by the Guangxu Emperor Hongshi was because the initiator Wu Xiang was still in a high position, and the three emperors of Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang have also become an important means for the Manchus to encircle the Han elite, and it is the most critical external embodiment of the "pillar theory" policy.

Now that the British are on the northern expedition, the policy of how to deal with the Manchurian bannermen has not been released, and only public opinion is rampant everywhere, and the mainstream is still the policy of the radicals. For the Manchu civil and military officials to atone for their crimes, the psychological threshold for resolutely surrendering to the south is too high.

The mountain chief wanted to pat his chest and protect the general, but he felt that he was soft-spoken and powerless to guarantee this kind of thing. He also had a nervous seizure in his heart, and felt that things that were difficult to guarantee should not be promised at will, and suddenly felt tormented in his heart, and turned to complain about the emperor and the court, and even the two courts that had been dissolved before. Why was it not possible to issue a full order to dispose of people as soon as possible?

The general was very regretful, and was about to beckon his subordinates to leave, when one of them suddenly squeezed out of the crowd of onlookers, and said loudly: "As long as you protect this place, and don't get involved in the future soldiers, I will protect you, and the bannermen in your subordinates are not guilty." You can also talk about merit! ”

This person is dressed as a monk, and it can be seen that the bald scoop on his head has no green stubble, and it is obvious that he has just been shaved, and the whole person is very popular, and he is not the Qing person he sees every day.

The general arched his hand and said, "This is ......."

The monk said: "I am the military counselor of the British General Affairs Consulate in Taiyuan, Qing Dynasty. Hengdong Jun! ”

The Lord is coming!

The general shouted in his heart, and bowed down and said, "Please teach me Counselor Heng!" ”

There can really be a way out to atone for his sins, and the ghost will follow Namuhd all the way to the dark!

The general knelt on the ground, but his heart floated to the clouds, and he finally had a way out! Don't look at the current Taiyuan Mansion and even the surrounding areas, the government and the people are united to resist the Southern Barbarians. But that's just the reason why Yinghua has never issued a full disposal order. The public opinion of liquidating the Manchu bannermen, as well as the uprooting of the Jin merchants and heroes in Hedong Province, all pushed the military and political officials and gentry and merchants to hold on to the rotten wood of the Qing Dynasty. Continuing to drift with the crowd, now that British officials have come forward to vouch for it, the general feels extremely lucky.

After listening to Heng Dongjun's explanation, he didn't set up a banner or stand in line, so he only used the policy of yang and yin to protect this Yinghua industry. To protect the safety of the British and Chinese people, the counselor replied: "But listen to the counselor's orders!" ”

Heng Dongjun bowed his hand to the mountain chief, the master, and the people of the Heavenly Temple who were also escorted on the side: "The duty of our consulate is to protect the people. Heng came too slowly, which frightened you. ”

Everyone was very relieved, and at the same time bowed for a long time, the fire saw the real gold, who is the British government for, whose country is the British country, and today I really have a personal experience. The consulate was already besieged, and they didn't expect the officials in the country to stretch out their hands, but they didn't expect that Counselor Heng would not hesitate to take the risk and go out of the city disguised as a monk.

When Heng Dongjun returned to the vicinity of the consulate on Zuosuo Street in the city, he was already besieged by layers of green flag soldiers, and he had to find someone to indirectly contact his colleagues in the hall. Consul Wang was waiting in the pavilion and asked the villain to say hello......"

Hey, listen to this, the consul even appeased the Green Flag soldiers? But isn't this back door too open?

Heng Dongjun entered the hall and told Wang Zi, the consul of Taiyuan, about his worries, and Wang Zi said: "Yin Jishan, the political envoy of Taqing Shanxi, has hooked up with me...... Not for himself, but in the name of pardoning the dependents of the Taiyuan bannermen, he made a great contribution and buried some human feelings for the Manchu family. ”

Heng Dongjun frowned and said: "Isn't this a conflict with Chen Xiang and Governor Xie's plan for Shanxi, Shanxi just has to be groomed seriously, let alone give the Jin Shang Banner a clear ......."

One of the strategies of the North-South Administration in Shanxi was to not openly recruit rebels, and to allow the Manchu court and government to agitate for a radical anti-Manchu policy among the British and Chinese people, which was also an unwritten edict issued by the emperor.

The British North Expedition, if you really want to come to a throat, you are not guilty, and it is of great use, not to mention the traitors who ride the wall, even the Manchurians, I am afraid that they will be reduced by six or seven percent. And then what? The trouble will all rot in the pot, and the goal of reorganizing the northern pattern will have countless resistances, and the plan to drive the Manchurians out will also be frustrated.

It is not impossible to eat the north first, and then engage in post-mortem liquidation, but it is difficult to guarantee what kind of chaos these people will make, and public opinion in the country will also have objections, not to mention that now the Anglo-Chinese country has to talk about credibility, and the dynasties of ancient times also have to keep a minimum of face......

The Anglo-Chinese army, politics, industry and commerce, and even the people's hearts and other aspects are steadily pressing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Northern Expedition is not afraid of more resistance, just like treating sores, squeezing out the sepsis as much as possible, and the pain is painful, but this kind of surgical drainage strategy is faster than the strategy of warming and dispersing the poison and waiting for it to heal itself, and the legacy is much less.

Of course, this does not mean that the policy is rigid and leaves no room for opening. Previously, Hengdongjun promised the future of the Green Battalion General in order to take care of the people, which is a special situation and special treatment.

Now that Wang Zi wants to open such a wide opening for Yin Jishan, won't the strategy of strictly governing Shanxi be frustrated?

Wang Zi explained: "Yin Jishan also understands our intentions and promises to take people away as much as possible. ”

Heng Dongjun smiled bitterly: "After all, there will be many people who will see the clue and climb up the pole." ”

Wang Zi spread his hands: "This can't be helped. Governor Zheng came with the news, saying that all walks of life in the country have begun to go north, and we must not be led by the nose of the people. ”

Heng Dongjun wanted to say something, and someone came to inform him that so-and-so secretly asked to see him. Claiming to be a close confidant of the Taiyuan prefect, the two were relatively speechless.

First of all, the Taiyuan prefect presented the city defense intelligence and troop deployment map through his cronies, and was willing to persuade many regiments to train the villagers to rise up.

Then the henchmen and family members of several leading officers of the flag battalion came to secretly serve and make an appointment to start an incident.

The next one is even more speechless, the marching master beside Muhd. But this guy didn't come on behalf of Muhd, he came for his family, this master from Shanxi and Shanxi grain merchants presented a complete set of marching deployment plans for Muhd, and patted his chest and said that if Muhd made any decision, he would send it to the consulate as soon as possible.

After that, there were more people who came, and the magistrate of the county was sentenced, and even Yining Bingbei Dao came to the door in person. Kneeling on the ground and asking to surrender, there is also an endless stream of Jin merchants and heroes, all of whom are vying to ensure that they can protect the Yinghua people and industrial and commercial assets of a certain prefecture and county.

Of course, this is the news of Yin Jishan's leakage, and the two were a little panicked by this battle, and convened a collective meeting with everyone in the consulate. Finally, a compromise was formulated. Meritorious service can atone for sins, but there is still a price. is a great credit, and it will never give Yinghua a future, but only to ensure their personal safety. In addition, small merit protects small wealth, great merit protects big wealth, in short, you have to cut the meat and clear the production. It is impossible to live the good life of the old Qing era again.

I thought that such harsh conditions could scare off many people, but I didn't think about it, and most of them accepted it with a happy face. On this day, the back door of the consulate on Zuosuo Street was bustling. Most of the people who came out carefully pinched a "merit ticket" issued by the consulate, and congratulated each other, this was their ferry ticket, compared with the Yuzhou ticket that Muhd promised them, although the Yinghua ferry ticket was expensive. But it is a guarantee that the genuine goods can pass the threshold of change and be a new person in the new world.

Of course. Compared with the officials of Shanxi Province and the Jin merchants, there are only a few who can get this way and give credit weights after all. Most people are still kept in the dark, including Mohd.

On March 28, the red-clothed forward, who had been late for a long time, finally arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City, and Muhd raised his arms and shouted, waiting for the magnificent scene of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians fighting the enemy together......

"Yin Jishan, you dare to be an enemy!"

Goodbye Green Battalion Soldiers, Green Flag Soldiers did not move, just planted their confidants and cronies of the Thousand Banner Battalion is still in control, the whole city is even more panicked and quiet, those quiet people seem to have expected it, Muhd's mind suddenly changed, and he quickly understood all this. Unless it was his deputy Yin Jishan who was deceiving him, it was impossible for the situation in Taiyuan to get out of control to this point, and he was still unconscious.

"Mu Xian, it's just a red-clothed sentry rider who came, and there is still time, hurry up and lead the people who still think they are the people of the Qing Dynasty."

Yin Jishan thought that this was an act of loyalty to the Manchurians, and did not care about Muhd's rage.

"Today I am here to live and die with the Qing Dynasty! Take your traitorous sacrificial banner first! ”

Muhd went crazy, drew a knife and cut Yin Jishan, but was blocked by Yin Jishan's guards, Muhd's guards came up to help again, and after the fight, Yin Jishan hurriedly retreated, and Muhd rushed to the governor's yamen, recruiting the militia around Taiyuan, preparing to break the city and fight.

"How much credit is it to kill such a person?"

"I don't know, but there's always merit."

"I heard that there is no reward for merit, and you have to lose money......"

"Do you really want to blow the wind outside the gate? With such a general trend, it would be good to survive, and it would be good to avoid disasters. ”

When Muhd was dispatching his troops and horses, he didn't notice that his cronies and attendants were muttering to themselves.

In a hurry, he said goodbye to a large number of documents, turned around to greet the master, but saw the cold glint in the master's eyes, nodded slightly, and the two henchmen around him suddenly drew their knives, one left and one right, and the blade went straight through the waist and eyes.

Muhd's eyes were cracked, and he didn't understand when he was dying, why did he become a traitor when he didn't recruit a traitor, and he made a wish......

On March 30, Gu Shining stepped on the gate tower of Yingze Gate in Taiyuan City, overlooking the Taiyuan City, which seemed to be very lonely, and then said to his subordinates who were eager to fight: "These civil officials are annoying enough, you have to block those Tartars and Second Tartars who fled towards Zhili, and arrest them, isn't it even more annoying?" ”

He said depressedly: "Shanxi is no longer our stage for red clothes, and the rest of the drama is sung by civil officials and people......"