584.The Battle of the Qing Dynasty (23)
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The Forbidden City has been besieged for more than 20 days, and these days, the 70,000 or 80,000 Manchurians hiding in the imperial city can be regarded as knowing what it means to live like a year. In the first chaos, the food was not prepared at all, and it could only be barely supported by the only reserves in the palace, but it was impossible to feed everyone.
With rice and noodles, you still need firewood to cook rice, but in the case of Kangxi not asking, the fire starters he originally wanted to hoard in the major halls were first used up by the Manchurians, and then the flowers and trees in the imperial garden were also completely damaged.
The wood that ignites the fire can still be solved, but people still need to have water, the imperial city is sent from Yuquan Mountain in the day, and now it is completely cut off, and can only be filtered with a small amount of well water and dirty water in the moat to make up for life, but tens of thousands of excrement are poured into the moat, this water quality can be imagined, so except for a very few people who can drink boiling water, a lot of people have fallen ill, and soon the magnificent Forbidden City has become an epidemic area.
Of course, there is no shortage of Chinese medicine in Ouchi, but there is no way to use it, so I can only watch the patient die slowly. This terrifying scene only made all the Manchurians turn upside down, hoping that Xia Jun would immediately rush into the Forbidden City. But the Xia army couldn't even take care of cleaning up the Manchu traitors outside the imperial city, how could they have the spare strength to attack the imperial city, and all the Manchus had to be terrified under the threat of the epidemic.
Faced with this situation, Long Keduo, who also hid in the imperial city, once ordered the Manchus in the city to flee out, but the Xia army guarding the gates thought that the Manchus were going to break through, and they drove the Manchus back with a cannon shot. As a last resort, Long Keduo had no choice but to order more and more of the dead and those to be killed to be thrown into several government offices, and then close the government offices in order to cut off the source of transmission.
But if the problem of water quality is not solved, how can the disease be eradicated? As a result, the number of patients continued to increase, and there were more and more closed government offices, and finally Kangxi himself, who was hiding in the deep palace, was infected with the epidemic through the eunuchs who served. By this time, even those who have illusions know that the end is coming.
On September 14, Kangxi, who was sick in Shenke, recruited Long Keduo and ordered him to go out of the city with his edict to surrender to the Xia army. Long Keduo walked out of the imperial city alone to present Kangxi's edict to the Xia army, but the Xia army, who heard that the imperial city had become an epidemic area, drove him back to the imperial city, and the Manchurian people's way of life was cut off.
In the afternoon of the same day, Kangxi ordered people to open the noon gate, and less than 10,000 Manchurians poured into the square in front of the Taihe Palace. Looking at Kangxi, who was already terminally ill, and then thinking about himself who was precarious, people were on their knees one by one and couldn't cry.
In the midst of the crying, Kangxi was carried into the Baohe Hall of the Qingning Palace, where he had lived for a long time. Immediately, the door of the temple was closed, and smoke soon rose from the cracks in the doors and windows. Seeing Kangxi walk into the crematorium he chose, the people suddenly became excited, found the unused clear oil, ignited the fire, lit the fire everywhere, and under the boiling flames, the Forbidden City, the world center built by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties with hundreds of millions of national funds, suddenly disappeared into the black smoke that rushed into the sky.
More than 10,000 Manchurians, including Long Kedo, followed the fire and turned into a tragic elegy. It's just that in this fire, Yinyu and Yin's Russia disappeared strangely, and no one can say their life and death whereabouts, did they die with Kangxi? Did he die under the guns of the Xia army before? Or was he driven by Xia Jun as an ordinary Manchurian on the construction site and in the plantation after mixing into the dwelling? A qiē has become a historical mystery.
Looking at He Shuzhi, who came in a hurry, the defenders hurriedly reported: "My lord, there is a fire in the imperial city. ”
"The official has seen it." He Shuzhi turned over and dismounted with a tense face. "Damn Qing captive, he was so violent, he actually burned the Forbidden City, even Ming and Li Chuang didn't do it back then."
"Your Excellency," the staff officer next to him asked. "Are you going to send someone in to put out the fire?"
The idea of the staff officers is that although Zheng Kezhang announced that he would change the Shuntian Mansion to Youzhou Stay-behind Mansion, it may not be impossible to move the capital here in the future, so if he heard that after the imperial city was on fire, he would inevitably make a note in his heart, and then his future would be a question mark in the future. However, He Shuzhi already knew that Zheng Kezhang wanted Tianjin to be the northern capital of China, and Long Keduo had previously told Xia Jun about the tragic situation in the Forbidden City, so he hesitated.
After such a hesitation, the fire became bigger and bigger, and seeing this situation, He Shuzhi sighed: "Come on, immediately clear a quarantine belt and come out, so as not to burn the inner city with scattered sparks." ”
"My lord, then, won't the Forbidden City be saved?" The staff officer looked at He Shuzhi with a stammering mouth. "My lord, there are countless treasures inside, just in case, just in case, the Holy One will blame ???????."
"If the Holy One blames, let the official bear it alone." He Shuzhi patted the staff officer's shoulder with a seemingly serious tone. "Don't you know that it has become a hell on earth, put out the fire, and save the whole army in the back to get an epidemic, can you explain to the saint? It's still a fire, burned to the ground and clean??????"
"There's a fire in the city." A certain team of people who were being escorted out of Beijing to Tianjin by Xia Jun noticed the fire rising in the city of Beijing. "That's, that's, that's the palace." Countless people collapsed on the ground, and countless people also fell to their knees and wept bitterly. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Qing Dynasty! The Emperor ??????"
Although the officers and soldiers of the Xia army were also a little at a loss, under the scolding of the military attachés of the Xia army, the soldiers of the Xia army who came back to their senses punched and kicked at the people: "Get up, get up for me, cry what mourning, the number of Han who died in your hands is countless, why don't you cry and cry them, so that you can repent for yourself and your ancestors??????"
The fire burned for five days and five nights before slowly extinguishing it, at this time Zheng Kezhang had rushed to Youzhou Mansion, accompanied by He Shuzhi, Zheng Kezhang walked through a cleaned fire field, and came to the three major halls that were already in ruins.
"Holy Lord, you can't move forward any further, the front hasn't been cleaned up, I'm afraid it's the embers that haven't ended."
Regarding He Shuzhi's advice, Zheng Kezhang nodded: "Qing confirmed, Kangxi died inside?" ”
"Yes, Long Keduo repeatedly confirmed it when he handed over Kangxi's suicide note." He Shuzhi reported. "It is said that Kangxi was already very ill at that time, and I thought that this first fire should be cremated for him."
He Shuzhi's guess is not far from the answer, but Zheng Kezhang doesn't care what the beginning is like and what the process is, he just sees the result: "It's burned well, it's burned wonderfully, I am still thinking about how to pass on this story for thousands of generations, don't let future generations think that it is a normal rotation of five virtues between this dynasty and the Qing Dynasty." ”
Speaking of this, Zheng Kezhang ordered: "After cleaning up, the gold, silver, copper, iron and tin genus are still available to be removed, and the rest remain in place, I want to build a national memorial garden here, set up a national memorial altar in front of the Taihe Hall ruins, and set up the chief god of the people who died in the captives since the Ming Dynasty and Wanli on the altar, and set up stone pillars in the remaining open places, and the stone pillars should be engraved with the locations and numbers of the previous massacres of the Chinese people by the Dongyu, and the people who died in the literary prison should also be marked one by one. ”
In the final analysis, Zheng Kezhang is also afraid that those historians with a conscience will overturn this history that did not exist in his previous life, so even if he is ridiculed as boasting of his achievements, he must engrave this history so that everyone knows what is the shame of the loss of the country and the heartache of the culture of the dead generations.
After the Hanlin scholar wrote down his words, Zheng Kezhang added: "Kangxi's edict was handed over to the "History of the Qing Dynasty" museum for proper preservation, and then announced to all provinces, counties and townships in China that the Tatar chieftain Kangxi was dead, and the Qing Dynasty was completely destroyed, and from today on, the people of China will no longer be a nightmare of foreign slaves." ”
Yes, the Qing court has completely perished, and even if there are remnants, it is no longer a complete empire, let alone a thriving China. However, in addition to the Qing court, China also had many enemies, Russia in the north, Jungar in the west, the Netherlands and Spain in the south, and potential enemies England and France, etc., it is not enough to say, therefore, Zheng Kezhang will not stop at this moment.
Since most of the Forbidden City has been burned down, after seeing the ruins of the imperial city, Zheng Kezhang moved to the Dahongmen Palace in the south of the city, which is the predecessor of the so-called Tuanhe Palace, but it is estimated that there will be no more Tuanhe Palace in this time and space.
Before moving in, the Praetorian Guards had carefully checked this Kangxi's favorite resort twice, and all the palace maids and eunuchs were driven out, so that the ministers of the guards could welcome Zheng Kezang's arrival with confidence. It's just that Zheng Kezhang didn't come here for leisure, and he quickly recruited the captured Mongol princes.
After being led to see the Jingguan built by the same clan, these Mongolian princes and Taiji were not possessed by their souls, for fear that the next victim would be themselves. At this moment, when they heard Zheng Kezang's summons, they couldn't wait to turn into dogs and horses and lie at Zheng Kezang's feet, and offer their questionable loyalty in the most gorgeous language.
"I, when I see you today, I have a few words to explain: first, I will set up the Monan Protectorate in the Naturalization City, and the princes of all banners must live in the Naturalization City, otherwise it will be regarded as a confrontation against Huaxia and refusal to obey; Second, I recognize the status of the Yellow Sect in Mongolia, and the original privileges will continue to be retained; Thirdly, the status of the Mongol tributions who returned to China can be retained, but the title of the knighthood must be changed, the title of the Qing court and the title of the old Mongol Khan King are no longer used, and the original Qing court will no longer put the Yulu, as for your insufficient use, or you can sell furs to the merchants, or you can cooperate in mining mines, and the court will also give Yulu and supplements when recruiting Mongolian soldiers to fight; Fourthly, Huaxia also set up post stations in various parts of Mongolia depending on the situation, stationed some soldiers, and there may also be bazaars and a small number of immigrants, but the post stations were for the convenience of trade, and attacking the post stations was an enemy of the imperial court??????"