Chapter 132: Compassion

More than 5,000 soldiers with bayonet rifles poured into the small village in front, at this time those flag soldiers had already been Xun by Yi Mi to the ignorance of personnel, tents opened, kicked the door open, just go in and stab, the people who were selected to do this work are Fuzhou natives and veterans of the Japanese conquest, a flag man has long hated to the bone, a murderer is used to killing is really ruthless, 7,000 flag soldiers died silently in this small village, and then all the corpses were thrown into a pile and lit on fire, and at the same time sent a telegram to Yang Feng to finish the work.

Of course, after this telegram reached Yang Feng's hands, it became that the banner army participating in the counterinsurgency was ambushed in the middle of the night and the whole army was annihilated.

"Alas, they can be regarded as loyal to the country, and they will definitely be preferential in terms of pensions, you can rest assured that you flag people usually give how much pension the court usually gives when they die in battle?" Yang Feng asked the deputy commander in front of him, this guy has no courage at all now, and his head is about to swell when he kneels on the ground, for fear that the chaotic minister and thief in front of him will pull him out of the gang and cut him again.

He is not a fool, how could he encounter an ambush of 7,000 people and the whole army was wiped out without running out? After all, he is also from a military family, and it is not unheard of the deeds of his ancestors who pit others, and it is estimated that the situation is basically like that this time.

"Back to the adult's words, one, one hundred taels." He said boldly.

"!" Then he heard Yang Feng scolding, so frightened that he just wanted to say fifty taels, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Yang Feng say again: "This governor will give two copies, two hundred taels!"

The deputy capital is almost stupid, one hundred taels is the old yellow calendar many years ago, and now there can be fifty taels of incense, and there may be how much is left!

"In addition, you are not having a good time now, and I know this, especially after this war, there are some orphans and widows left. It's pitiful to look at. Although I also know that you have rules, you can't do this or that, but now it's time to change this old and bad habits, and when you go back, tear down the walls at the corner of the street, and do whatever you want. What is the blame of the imperial court, the governor Ben bears, just like those dead men who can't support their children, if there is a favorite outside, just remarry, I remember you don't pay so much attention to this. Yang Feng said with a pleasant face.

The deputy commander was really grateful at this time, he never thought that Yang Feng would be so good to them, lying there and kowtowing vigorously to thank the Lord for his grace. Looking at his appearance, Yang Feng suddenly remembered the famous safety warning in later generations, once there is an accident, others will sleep with your wife, beat your children, and spend your pension.

Since it is not appropriate for these flag people to kill all, then they can only be used as waste, in fact, these flag people are still somewhat useful, especially women who do not bind their feet, which gives them a great advantage, and now he is advocating to put their feet in Fujian and Zhejiang. Arranging some work for women who do not bind their feet can also mobilize the enthusiasm of Han people in this regard.

He found that the history of the decline of the Han people began with the large-scale binding of women's feet, and Chinese women rarely bound their feet five generations ago, resulting in the creation of the Xionghan and Tang Dynasty. When the Song Dynasty began to bind its feet on a large scale, the history of being reincarnated by aliens began, and when a man was followed by a bunch of women who didn't even have the ability to escape, you can imagine how much desperate courage he still had. When the Mongol Tatars found this very beneficial for maintaining their rule, they advocated it with all their might. This nation is getting worse and worse, and in the end, it's still the green worms who do it, if it weren't for their biantai-like aesthetics. How could such a strange custom come about? The thought of those green worms surrounding a prostitute and using her shoes as a wine glass, this product can't help but be creepy, Nima, reading the sage book can read this kind of taste is terrifying enough, this product is now more and more aware that the green worm class, in Chinese history, always seems to be a traitor, intentionally or unintentionally.

Of course, it is not advisable to learn from the rich and noble to collect the foot tax, he is now the time to win the hearts and minds of the people, and he has just been exempted from a lot of miscellaneous taxes, and now he has made a new trick, which is very unfavorable to his image, this kind of thing is too ingrained among the Han people, so it can only be solved slowly through propaganda.

In order to show the reward for the glorious sacrifice of the flag army, he even personally presided over the distribution of pensions the next day, took a table to the street, made a few officers sit in the back, and even asked Ye Zi, who specially sent him silver from Shanghai, to sit in the middle in a military uniform, and now this girl is the financial director of the Yang consortium in Asia, and the big feet are wearing riding boots like a female spy of the Kuomintang in a TV series, and there is a pile of silver next to the blind.

That scene was really unprecedented, the pension of two hundred taels of silver, even when he entered the customs, did not have this price, not to mention that with the outflow of silver over the years, silver has become more and more valuable, and the family members of those banner people actually did not hear a word of hatred for Governor Yang, but a heartfelt gratitude.

Surrounded by a group of bodyguards, this goods sat there contentedly drinking tea, and there were even widows of banner people with their children who came over to kowtow to him, although they didn't go over to help him because of safety problems to show that they were close to the people, but it also made him feel very good.

After the pension was paid, the gates at the intersections of the street were demolished, and with the fall of these obstacles, the privileges enjoyed by the banner people in the city for hundreds of years also fell, and the same scene also happened in Hangzhou, although the Hangzhou general carried a rope on the side and claimed to fight to the death, but the citizens of Hangzhou still blew up the city gate of the garrison with the support of the army. Moreover, Yuan Shikai also ordered the demolition of the city wall stationed in the city, and transported all the city bricks and other things to the university construction site outside the city for waste use, and all those who participated in this work were paid, but after watching silently for a while, even some of the poor people among the banner people began to participate, and there was still the Hangzhou general standing there like a fool with his head down, carrying the hanging rope at a loss.

"This traitor is really going to be angry with the mourning family!" Cixi in Beijing was furious and threw the music in her hand to the ground, she is not angry and cruel, to be honest, even if she is replaced, she will have to kill those flag soldiers, she is so angry that the flag people are really not angry, even a Han slave knows that Lu Dao is loyal to the court, why are you so easy to recognize the thief as a father!

Of course, she also understands the difficulties of those banner people, after all, her father is just a Taoist until he dies, and he is not a wealthy family, and it can even be said that he is relatively down, and the life of the flag man at that time is not so good, let alone so many years later. It's not that she doesn't want to improve the treatment of the bannermen, but she has to have money, and now the life of the court is getting worse, plus she has to buy military ships and train new troops, where will she get money? The imperial court pays so much tax every year, and there are so many places to spend money, even she feels stretched.

In addition to selling some officials, she doesn't have any extra income, but now she is quite envious of Yang Feng and Li Hongzhang, it's good to be rich! During this time, she even began to fight corruption on a large scale, but this is not a problem, and she can't get much by swatting flies. It all depends on the right time and place, and the same must be done, otherwise the remaining tigers will have to come up and bite her to death.

"Queen Mother, I'm afraid that this ancestral law will not work if it is not changed." Rong Lu also sighed and said.

"The mourning family also knows the way, but how can this be changed? We are not that Yang Rebellious, he is a naked white man who can toss no matter what, we are carrying countless burdens behind us, which one of these burdens moves, our world may be shaken. "Cixi is a person who understands, the reason why she is embraced, to put it bluntly, is because she is the defender of the old order, if she becomes a saboteur at this time, I am afraid that without the Han people, those princes and ministers will have to remove her from power first.

"Or we can slow down, starting with the banner people, the flag people in the northeast have been poisoned by the Japanese invaders, there are not many left, even if you can't pick out many soldiers, in the opinion of the micro ministers, you might as well pick out the strong and brave people in the battalions stationed in Beijing to join the new army, so that part of the solution can be solved. As for those who are eliminated, they can learn from foreigners to form police, not only in Beijing, but also in the surrounding Tianjin and Baoding, which can not only reduce the burden on the imperial court, but also grasp the local people's feelings, which can be described as the best of both worlds. Rong Lu said.

It should be said that his suggestion is very reasonable, at this time, the national flag is only about 5 million, deducting the Han army flag and the Mongolian flag, at most 3 million people, so that the county county has friends in the northeast to kill more than 150,000, and then subtract the old and weak women and children, there can be 500,000 young and middle-aged people to burn high incense. Excluding those princes and ministers who are impossible to be soldiers, those who smoke big cigarettes and completely collapse, and those who are stationed in various places, it is indeed very unrealistic to achieve the goal of the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven, and if it is mixed with the Han people, it will be meaningless, so we can only find a way from the flag army stationed in Beijing.

"If you think it's right, you can do it!" Cixi sighed and said, she is really exhausted now, since that rebel appeared, she found that she had not lived a comfortable day, sent away Rong Lu, and wanted to close her eyes and rest for a while! Suddenly, the eunuch informed the military department that Shang Shu Gangyi was coming, and she was very impatient to let this guy in.

"Galeries Lafayette, no!" Gangyi entered the door and lay on the ground and shouted while kowtowing.

Cixi was irritable, and when she looked at his face with no ears and no nose, her heart was full of anger.

"The mourning family is not dead, what are you crying about?"

Gangyi was frightened by this angry shout, Cixi looked at his face that had been repaired by Youpeng in Shanxian County, and couldn't help but feel a little pity, sighed and said, "Say, what's wrong?"

"Queen Mother, the Beiyang Sailor has now blocked the mouth of Dagu." Gangyi said with a sad face.

"This old thing is really bad!" Cixi suddenly stood up from the couch and said through gritted teeth. (To be continued......)