The sky finally dimmed under the blood-red light of the sunset, and the city of Nanjing fell into the night again, and the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, which had been killed for several days, ushered in a rare tranquility, no guns, no shouts, no screams, everything seemed so quiet and peaceful.

In the yamen of the governor of Liangjiang, Xiao Yungui, Zuo Zongtang, Li Shourong, Wang Minyun and others are still handling official business. On weekdays, Xiao Yungui has a headache about these cases, he always asks Zuo Zongtang and his staff to handle these trivial matters, because to manage an army of more than 100,000 people, all kinds of trivial things such as eating, drinking, and sleeping are unavoidable, and he can't think about so many things alone, so he selected a lot of literate brothers to join Zuo Zongtang's staff group as the center of the West Hall to deal with government affairs.

But he uncharacteristically stayed today to deal with military and political affairs with Zuo Zongtang and others, for the simple reason that he was afraid that he would be cranky when he had nothing to do. Although he had seen this kind of mass slaughter in Changsha, it was he who personally ordered these bannermen to lose their lives, including those old and weak women and children who had no ability to resist. He didn't dare to recall the bloody scenes, for fear that he would show the slightest fear or remorse in front of his subordinates.

Zuo Zongtang also seemed to see his intentions, but he didn't break it, and he was also buried in military and political affairs like him, except for the sound of discussing official business, there was no slightest words of victory and laughter in the yamen hall, and the whole atmosphere was very depressed and sad.

After the three of the giant candles on the yamen were replaced, it was already late at night, and everyone felt tired and hungry, but no one stopped their errands, and still wrote hard, or discussed how to deal with a political matter.

At this moment, a burst of fragrance wafted into the hall, and Hong Yun'er's crisp and pleasant voice floated in: "Let's take a break and eat some refreshments to fill your stomach." ”

When everyone looked up, they saw Hong Yun'er and Li Xuanji walking up to the hall together, each carrying two food boxes, and the aroma was constantly coming out of the food boxes.

Xiao Yungui frowned and looked at Hong Yun'er, the four-eyed girl looked relaxed, as if nothing had happened, I saw the two girls put the food box on the table and opened it, Li Xuanji smiled and said: "Everyone come and try it, this is the refreshment made by Xi Wangniang with our female sisters, there are osmanthus cakes, glutinous rice balls, scallion oil baked cakes, let's eat some and make it." ”

Zuo Zongtang and the others put down the brush in their hands and looked at Xiao Yungui, Xiao Yungui laughed dryly, and it was not easy to disobey the kindness of the two beauties, and said: "Everyone eat, don't be restrained, just don't let the oil and water stain the paperwork." Everyone chuckled a few times and stepped forward to take food, and the oppressive atmosphere weakened a lot.

While everyone was surrounding Li Xuanji to eat, Xiao Yungui secretly pulled Hong Yun'er aside, frowned, and said, "Did you take the wrong medicine?" At this time, you are actually in the mood to make refreshments? Didn't you secretly cry during the day? ”

Hong Yun'er pursed her red lips and said in a low voice: "People actually have a habit, that is, whenever they do something they don't want to do, they will find a lot of reasons for themselves, and I found a reason in the evening, so I relaxed a little." ”

Xiao Yungui said suspiciously: "What reason?" ”

Hong Yun'er sighed lightly and said: "The fate of the banner people in the city seems to be tragic, but those who have watched "Yangzhou Ten Days" will not think so. This "Yangzhou Ten Days" is a book written by Wang Xiuchu, a staff member of Shi Kefa and a survivor of the Yangzhou Massacre, the full text is only more than 8,000 words, but it faithfully records the tragic situation in Yangzhou at that time, and "Shangshu", "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Historical Records", "Hanshu", "Water Classic", "Tang Western Regions Records", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Baiyi Biography" and so on are called the top ten strange books of history. This book, along with the Jiading Massacre Chronicles, was banned and destroyed during the Manchu Dynasty's revision of the Siku Quanshu, but before that, these books were brought to Japan by the fleeing Han Chinese and were preserved. Due to the Manchu blockade news, no one knew about the Yangzhou massacre even during the Manchu Dynasty, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that this book was transmitted back to Middle-earth from Japan by people with intentions, and the truth was revealed to the world. When I read this book, I just read it as a general historical material, and tonight I wrote it down silently, and at this time I can appreciate the tragic situation of the Yangzhou massacre. ”

Xiao Yungui sighed, and Hong Yun'er continued: "You and I are both liberal arts students, and everyone should understand that the things in our human history should actually understand that since the birth of human beings, the killing of each other has not stopped, and the integration between various races is actually based on killing each other, although it is very frustrating to say, but it is a real thing. How tragic were the Spaniards against the Incas, the American colonizers against the Indians, the ancient Romans against the European continent, and Genghis Khan against Eurasia? But this is the inevitable path for our human beings to move from barbarism to civilization, and even after the two later Shijie wars, everyone basically learned civilization. But it is a pity that even in the modern age, which has a very high degree of civilization in later generations, the oppression of the weak races by the powerful races has not stopped. Zuihou, I want to understand one thing, since we are Han Chinese, since we are a group, we naturally have to put the interests of this group first, when we need to deprive other groups of interests, or even their lives, in order to meet the interests of our own group, we can only follow the will of our own group interests, otherwise it will be our own bad luck. This cruel reality cannot be avoided, since we agree with Mr. Zuo's words, there is no need to feel guilty, open our minds and work towards our goal, and realize the great cause of the rejuvenation of our Han people as soon as possible, so that we can end this kind of killing one day earlier, instead of always having this unsolvable knot in our hearts. ”

After Xiao Yungui pondered for a moment, he sighed lightly: "Your self-healing function is indeed powerful, I am ashamed of myself. ”

Hong Yun'er glanced at him and said: "Sister, I used to have a bad family background, and I had to comfort myself in everything, how can I be like you, someone will settle things for you if something happens." ”

Xiao Yungui smiled bitterly: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, my parents divorced when I was a child, and I also suffered a lot, do you think I am very happy?" Seeing Hong Yun'er's strange eyes, Xiao Yungui hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "The "Yangzhou Ten Days" that you wrote silently was handed over to the edict for printing, and there are other books such as "Jiading Slaughter of the City", in short, they are banned books that were completely destroyed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you can write as much as you remember, and hand them over to the edict and the government for printing, so that tens of thousands of copies of the edict can be printed and spread everywhere. In short, we must start to strengthen public opinion propaganda, so that the people can't think that we are just a group of people who are easy to kill, and the publication of these books that expose the truth can make the people see the true face of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

The Imperial Decree was established at the time of the establishment of Yong'an, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attached great importance to the preservation of archives, and the Imperial Decree Office was not only in charge of the edict documents, but also the household registers, registers, military registers, and family registers were collected here, and then it also joined the function of publishing various official documents and classics. The Celestial Empire stipulates that "one copy of the military register shall be submitted to the commander of the army, one copy of the military register of each commander shall be submitted to the commander of the brigade, one copy of the military register of each brigade commander shall be submitted to the commander of the brigade, one copy of the military register of the commander of each brigade shall be submitted to the commander of the division, and one copy of the military register of the commander of each division shall be submitted to the commander of the army, and the same four copies shall be made of the military commander of each army commander and the commander of the five divisions, and shall be sent to the supervision of the army, the general system, the general and the edict of the government." It is also required that "if there is an addition or death, it will be reformed at any time and presented in a hurry". It also stipulates that the family register is also "like the system of the military register", and four copies are made, one of which must be sent to the edict. It was only later that Hong Xiuquan ordered the edict to collect books from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and destroy them, in order to achieve the unique purpose of worshipping God. What is the difference between this practice and the book-burning pit of the tyrant Qin Shi Huang and the mosquito prison of the Manchu Qing Dynasty? For this matter, Yang Xiuqing even asked his Heavenly Father to go down to admonish.

The Taiping Army of the West Palace has its own edict office, managing all the classic archives of the West Palace, and has also published some documents, but most of them are geographical pictures and texts on both sides of the Yangtze River, which is convenient for marching and fighting, and it is the first time that tens of thousands of books have been printed in large quantities.

Hong Yun'er nodded and said, "This method is not bad, I'll start doing it when I go back." Then a soothing smile appeared on his face and he said: "You are easy, arrange such a laborious thing for me, if you finish it, what will you reward me?" ”

Xiao Yungui saw that she suddenly began to be coquettish to herself, her heart fluttered, and she laughed: "I'll give you my whole person?" ”

Hong Yun'er took a sip and said, "Are you so rare?" With that, he turned red and walked away.

Looking at Hong Yun'er's swaying back, Xiao Yungui licked his lips and thought to himself, when he has free time, he must do this chick, he has been holding back too hard in the past few months. Then Xiao Yungui suddenly thought that as the two met day after day, it seemed that the so-called grudges in the past slowly disappeared, and it seemed that the two of them invariably regarded each other as the closest person to this shijie, if there was no such thing, Xiao Yungui might not be able to find out, in fact, this four-eyed sister has many benefits.

When Xiao Yungui was thinking nonsense, Li Xuanji sent a plate of osmanthus cake over and said in a low voice: "King Xi, you can eat some." ”

Xiao Yungui came back to his senses, took the plate with a smile, stared at Li Xuanji with a pair of thief eyes, looked at Li Xuanji very embarrassed, and ran away with a red face. Xiao Yungui was very happy in his heart, secretly thinking about whether he could do a double fly or something in the future. He thought of the vile and filthy things in his head, and he also forgot the unpleasant things in the back of his mind.

It's a pity that Xiao Yungui's good mood didn't last long, and he saw a messenger from Bai Zetang hurrying to the hall and handing over a secret letter to Zuo Zongtang. This Bai Zetang's secret letter can only be opened by Xiao Yungui, Hong Yun'er and Zuo Zongtang, Zuo Zongtang wanted to show Xiao Yungui first, but when he turned his head, this kid stared at the two girls in the hall with a pair of thief eyes, knowing that the West King couldn't read it at this time, Zuo Zongtang smiled bitterly and read it himself.

After reading the secret letter, Zuo Zongtang's face changed greatly, and he didn't care what Xiao Yungui was thinking, he stepped forward quickly and said, "King Xi, there is something big!" ”

Xiao Yungui came back to his senses, took the secret letter and glanced at it in a hurry, the smile on his face disappeared, and then the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he couldn't help but tear open the broken gong and shouted angrily: "Who the hell is this nonsense rumor?!" Lao Tzu is going to skin him! ”