Chapter Twenty-Six: The Past of Peace

"You mourn ......" Hearing Tong Guohu say this, Zhang Yicheng was quite embarrassed, when people told about his father's death, you didn't ask his mother, and as a result, the sad topic of the death of his parents was also brought out.

"Huh...... It's okay......" Referring to the death of his parents, Tong Guohu was not only sad, but also seemed to be quite relaxed, and always maintained his signature ET smile, "Since then, I have had a feeling that the bizarre death of my relatives and the misfortunes of my entire family are more or less related to the dark shadow on my father, when I was young, I just doubted, but after my father died, that thing ran to me again, and I confirmed my guess!" So I began to frantically search for answers: what the hell is this thing, where did it come from, and when did it go! ”

"Your answer is the Formation?" When Tong Guohu spoke, Zhang Yicheng took the time to open his eyes, but he didn't see anything abnormal on Tong Guohu, "According to my observation, there doesn't seem to be anything on you......"

"I don't have anything in me, it's because you have something more powerful! That's why I wanted to find you! Tong Guohu pointed to his left eye, and his expression suddenly became extremely mysterious, "The Mao array is not the answer, it is just a small experiment!" ”

"Can you be clear? What trial? What do you want to verify? Zhang Yicheng seemed a little confused, "You asked me for help because the things on my body are more powerful?" I'm coming, and what's on you is gone? It's as simple as that? ”

"It's far from that simple, this matter is a long story...... Tong Guohu sighed, stood up and slipped to the window, and opened the curtains, "Du Wenxiu, do you know this person?" ”

"Sounds familiar!" Zhang Yicheng frowned and thought vigorously, it seems that he has heard such a name in which TV series, and he seems to be a person with a lot of background......

"This person is my ancestor!" Tong Guohu narrowed his eyes and said.

"Your ancestor's surname is Du?" Zhang Yicheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, it seems that this Tong Guohu Bacheng is a descendant of an ancient wanted criminal, but according to common sense, those Jiangyang thieves in ancient times will not change their names and surnames unless they have to, there is a saying that "the eldest husband does not change his name and sits and does not change his surname", even if he commits a serious crime and is wanted, it is a big deal to change his name, and even change his surname, what a sin this must be......

In the 23rd year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1844), Hong Xiuquan founded the God Worship Society in Guangdong, and six years later launched the largest peasant uprising with a purely religious background in Chinese history, the Jintian Uprising. In the third year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1853), the Taiping army conquered Jiangning (now Nanjing), renamed Tianjing and set the capital here, marking the advent of the heyday of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In the sixth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1856), Yunnan broke out in the first place, mixed with Yi, Hani, Bai, Zhuang and other multi-ethnic ethnic groups in the uprising of ethnic minorities, among them, Du Wenxiu's troops are the largest number of rebels, the strongest combat effectiveness and the only team that announced the return to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In September of the sixth year of Xianfeng, Du Wenxiu led his troops to capture Dali in Yunnan and established the Dali regime, and in the same year threw out the slogan of "serving the call of Tianjing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the revolutionary Manchu Qing Dynasty", and at the same time sent an envoy to Tianjing to meet Hong Xiuquan, expressing the idea that the Dali military and civilians are willing to follow King Hong Tianwang to achieve the great cause, to be honest, at this time Hong Xiuquan also has a feeling of lying down and being shot, and he doesn't know which way the Dali city gate is opened, and there is an inexplicable more Dali subordinate, but lying down the gun to lie down the gun, more subordinates are better than fewer subordinates, He also happily agreed to the envoy's request, and officially recognized Du Wenxiu's self-proclaimed title of 'Generalissimo of Yunnan President's Soldiers and Horses' on behalf of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In Hong Xiuquan's view, at present, the high-level infighting of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is continuous, Yang Xiuqing was killed by Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, and Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were killed by themselves, Shi Dakai ran away from home, and basically all the people who could fight were gone, and he was worried that there was no way back.

To tell the truth, in the rebel army led by Du Wenxiu, the proportion of ** accounts for more than 98%, although it is nominally an uprising of ethnic minorities, but in fact it is an out-and-out **rebel army, ** believes in Allah, and Hong Xiuquan since the establishment of the God Worship Association to the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom capital Tianjing, all under the banner of God, one believes in Allah and one believes in God, which is completely unrelated to the two beliefs, the reason why they can be pulled together is nothing more than the mentality of using each other to keep warm. Du Wenxiu wants to find a backer for himself, and Hong Xiuquan just wants to find a way back for himself.

"At that time, Yunnan was in turmoil and the information was not smooth, Du Wenxiu didn't know about the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Army's internal strife, and the main generals lost all these things, and he just wanted to find a backer for himself, so he would make the stupid decision to return to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" Tong Guohu said indignantly, "As a result, this so-called backer fell earlier than himself!" ”

Qing Tongzhi three years (1864), Hong Xiuquan died suddenly in the palace, in July of the same year, Tianjing City was broken, Hong Xiuquan's body was ordered to dig out by the commander of the Hunan army, Zeng Guoquan, poured kerosene and burned into charcoal, and then used the stone mill to grind into powder and filled into the cannon into the Yangtze River, and then within a few months, Li Xiucheng, Hong Renji, and the young king Hong Tianguifu were all captured and executed by the Qing army, and the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime was basically dispersed, when it was the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1869), The last remnant of the Twist Army under the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Yuan Dakui's army, was bulldozed by Zuo Zongtang in northern Shaanxi, and when the whole world was clean, Du Wenxiu was still stupidly attacking Kunming.

"Brother Tong, you're studying history, right?" Zhang Yicheng was quite fascinated when he heard it, and said in his heart that it was a pity that this Tong Guohu didn't go to tell the story, "Du Wenxiu is your ancestor, what does it have to do with what you have?" Has it been handed down from his lifetime? ”

"As I said earlier, defecting to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a stupid decision for Du Wenxiu!" Tong Guohu did not answer Zhang Yicheng's question directly, "This stupidity is not only strategic stupidity, but also endless troubles for his children and grandchildren, including my things!" ”

According to Tong Guohu's words, as early as the beginning of the Yunnan national uprising in the sixth year of Daoguang, there were originally many forces that revolted at the same time, in addition to Du Wenxiu's multi-ethnic united front troops, there was also a pure ** rebel army led by Ma Fuchu and Ma Rulong.

In terms of the motives of the uprising, the two Ma Ye can be said to be fundamentally different from Du Wenxiu, Du Wenxiu really wants to establish a new order to save the people from fire and water, and he himself is addicted to the general secretary by the way; And the stomach of the second horse is to make the team big and make a lot of momentum, and then wait for the court to recruit An, this is just like some speculators in modern society to set up a company, not for any career dreams and other goals, but to spend a lot of money to advertise to create momentum after financing and listing, and finally wait for the acquisition to cash out The reason is the same, if you expect to take the regular way, rely on joining the army to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions step by step, if there is no one in the court, maybe climb to death and mix up (1), But if you fool the miscellaneous army to rebel and wait for the imperial court to recruit An, recruit the past directly is the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and the commander of the military division, an absolute step to the sky, the speed of being an official is comparable to the long two bundles (2), faster than the mixed grassroots can be far more than an order of magnitude, there is between this, the second horse has been noncommittal to Du Wenxiu's idea of defecting to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and has always reserved the idea of "only trying to retaliate, not daring to rebel", in order to leave a way back for himself, at the moment in Yunnan, this little fight is at most a contradiction among the people, But if it really has anything to do with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it will be a veritable public enemy of the whole people.

Facts have proved that although the opportunistic line of these two men is dirty, it has preserved the high-ranking officials of the two men and the vitality of the rebel army. Just a few years after Du Wenxiu announced his return to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the two Ma Ye collectively took the opportunity of fighting Kunming to submit to the imperial court, and the relationship with Du Wenxiu also changed from like-minded revolutionary comrades-in-arms to incompatible class enemies, and Du Wenxiu has announced his return to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there is no way back.

"In fact, in the second year of Tongzhi, the imperial court also sent Ma Rulong to persuade Du Wenxiu to surrender, but it happened that at this time, the news of Shi Dakai's surrender and Ling Chi spread to Yunnan, so that Du Wenxiu had to doubt the motives of the imperial court to recruit An......," Tong Guohu said, "Ma Rulong took his high-ranking official Houlu as an example and persuaded Du Wenxiu to return to the imperial court, but when he heard that Shi Dakai was still punished by Ling Chi after his surrender, Du Wenxiu felt that as long as he had anything to do with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he would definitely be settled by the imperial court, so he refused Zhao'an and was determined to continue to resist……”

There is a saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, no matter how poor and weak the Qing Dynasty is, after all, it has saved more than 200 years of family foundation, if this bit of family wealth is shaken out all at once, and anyone can drink a pot, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be bulldozed, can you still shovel your little Du Wenxiu?

In the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1869), Du Wenxiu's elite troops were lost in the battle of Kunming, and the Qing army took the opportunity to counterattack and besiege Dali, in order to avoid the Qing army slaughtering the city and repeating the tragedy of Tianjing, Du Wenxiu finally decided to take poison and go out of the city to surrender, and sure enough, he was beheaded to show the public, and the vigorous Yunnan national uprising was declared a failure.

"Brother Tong, you said it, it seems that this Du Wenxiu is just standing on the wrong team, what does this side door history have to do with the things on your body?" Although this Tong Guohu is very interesting, the purpose of Zhang Yicheng's trip is not to listen to him after all, it is a serious matter to treat Jiang Jun...... "Also, it's not impossible for me to help you, but the premise is that you have to help me first, even if the Mao array of Fukang Park is a waste array, but this waste array is made up by you, and now there are problems left over from history, so you have to bear some joint and several responsibilities for reason......

"If I help you, you will help me?" Hearing Zhang Yicheng say this, Tong Guohu was very moved, "Little brother, to tell you the truth, if you help me, it may be dangerous, over the years, I have more or less some savings, if you can really help me, I can give you all these savings!" ”

"Hey, Brother Tong, what did you say? Do you think I look like a man with an eye for money? Zhang Yicheng peeked at the furnishings in the room, and didn't have much hope for this Tong Guohu's savings, "Let me tell you the bottom, my father is the head of the Maoshan sect of Taoism, I am more or less a young master, it is the unshirkable responsibility of the people in my sect to subdue demons and eliminate monsters, as long as the ability allows, I Zhang Yicheng will definitely go all out, but the premise is that I promise to help my classmates treat the disease first, if you can't help me, then don't blame me for not saving ...... death" To be honest, Zhang Yicheng is not a fool, although he promised to help, but added" Ability allows" is such a premise, this room for maneuver is greater, and regardless of whether the ability allows it or not, it is true to fool you to help me get things done......

"The Maoshan Sect is in charge?" Tong Guohu nodded, "No wonder, at such a young age, he actually understands these things...... Zhang Yicheng, is that your name? ”

"Yes...... Yes......" Zhang Yicheng was stunned, just remembered that after talking about it for a long time, he didn't even tell people his name, Tong Guohu didn't ask, and he didn't say it.

"Your father, do you know the head of the Zhengyi faction?" Tong Guohu seems to be serious.

"You mean Ren Zhenren, right? That's an old friend of my dad, and my dad and my uncle both know each other! Speaking of which, Zhang Yicheng seems to be quite proud.

"No, no, not surnamed Ren, surnamed Yuan." Tong Guohu is still very serious.

"Surname Yuan ......?" Zhang Yicheng frowned, feeling that something seemed to be wrong.

"That's right! Yuan Shaoyi, Yuan Zhangjiao, is there any connection with your father? ”

"Yuan ...... Continue...... One ......" Zhang Yicheng's eyes were black, and he almost fell off the stool to the first floor......

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Note:

(1) Chief: also known as the general manager, is the ninth grade of the local military position, basically the smallest official in the local army, the same post of the Beijing official for Lan Lingchang, in the local military position, there are few from the nine rank of the position, in short, the officials are outside the grade.

(2) Long 2 bundle: The abbreviation of the Long March-2 bundle launch vehicle, codenamed CZ-2E, has a low-earth orbit carrying capacity of 9.5 tons. With a take-off mass of 460 tons, it is the most technologically advanced, fastest and largest long-range launch vehicle independently developed by China.