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In the fourth year of Hongxi, Zhu Gaochi died of illness at the age of 51, and passed on the eldest son Zhu Zhanji. lived three years longer than in history, and at the same time, Emperor Zhu Di was also critically ill after Zhu Gaochi's death.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji, who became the emperor, was listening to Zhu Di's bedside explain the aftermath............

Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji chatted a lot, in which Zhu Di focused on Zhu Zhanji and said that in the future, the Jiangyin 81st day of the Southern Ming Dynasty will be divided into the Later Jin Jianguo (Qing), Li Zicheng's Dashun, Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi, and the Nanming regime.

This year is the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it is also the second year of Shunzhi when the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty changed the country to the Qing Dynasty, this year due to Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan, the Qing army went all the way south, because the shameless Shunzhi Emperor forcibly issued a shaving order to keep his hair without a head, and formed righteous armies to oppose the Qing army.

Among them, in addition to the stone pillar guarded by Qin Liangyu, the remaining Jiangyin-county town resisted the most fiercely, and Jiangyin was led by Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun and others.

The soldiers and civilians of Jiangyin had already annihilated the soldiers and horses sent by Zong Hao, and Zong Hao also heard the news. That night, he heard that the Qing soldiers had sent more than 1,000 horses to set off from the county town, and Wang Liang, the leader of the sailors, also led the boat division to set off, and found that Jiangyin's security was tighter.

In Xicheng, we found two spies, and found that the lock key and door key had been damaged, after the soldiers guarding the door asked, they confessed to buy the road silver taels, and finally were beheaded under the city as spies.

The Qing soldiers retreated to the Mapi Bridge, where the soldiers were stationed, secretly sent two people into the city, probed the truth, were captured, and showed their heads to the public.

The momentum of the Qing soldiers became stronger and stronger, and the township soldiers who were 50 or 60 miles away from the city went into the city every day to fight, carrying weapons and food on their backs, and they had no heart to farm. If anyone doesn't die, they will be criticized by everyone, and they will die without complaint.

The Qing soldiers could not conquer it for several days, and they also asked for support, so the seven kings, eight kings, and ten kings led more than 1,000 generals and marched to Jiangyin with more than 100,000 horses. The general Liu Liangzuo was the vanguard and attacked the West Gate first. The people of Jiangyin went to war and were killed fifty people, but the Qing soldiers did not suffer any casualties, so they all retreated.

Liu Liangzuo moved to Nanguan, and Shao Kanggong resisted with all his might, but did not conquer it. But everyone thought that Kang Gong had no merit, and when he was guarding Nanguan, the people were not allowed to enter and exit, but he let his villagers go privately and threw him into prison. From the east gate to the north gate, the Qing soldiers divided 16 battalions to besiege the city, and then burned the east city and plundered the rich households outside the city.

The villagers fought desperately and were defeated. The Qing soldiers also lost one of their cavalry generals. Then the troops were divided into the north gate, and the township soldiers defended in three ways, and the two roads were defeated, and only dozens of people fought according to the bridge, so they collected the troops and returned.

The Qing soldiers united and stationed in the northeast corner, burned down the homes of ordinary people, and killed a lot of people.

The Qing soldiers took advantage of the victory to march eastward, searched the mountains and plundered the land in Daqiao, Zhouzhuang and other places, wantonly copied and killed, and injured countless men, women, the old and the weak. The people of Zhouzhuang and others took the initiative to find the enemy to fight, and a Houcheng man killed one of the cavalry generals and retreated.

There have been many days of war and chaos, and the government decrees cannot leave the city, and those rebellious minions in the distant countryside take the opportunity to ask for money, burn houses, and kill their masters, and this kind of thing is endless. The fireworks were mixed, covering the sky, and everyone hurriedly went up to save the dead and help the wounded, and they were busy.

There were more and more Qing soldiers, and they immediately stationed in Junshan, Huangshan and other places, burning, killing and looting the surrounding houses, day and night.

Liu Liangzuo made a letter of surrender and shot it in from outside the eastern city, and asked the sergeants to search and kill the villagers who were scattered, and saw that the villagers did not dare to come again, so they attacked the city wholeheartedly.

The city was heavily defended, and the arrows of the Qing army fell like two points, and the people in the city covered themselves with the lid of the pot with one hand and received the arrows with the other, and they could get three or four hundred arrows a day.

Less than 100,000 people faced the 24 elite Qing soldiers, who fought the Qing soldiers and retreated, and the Qing soldiers were furious and attacked in a big way. Suddenly, I saw a young general rushing around with a halberd, unstoppable. When the war was over, he was gone. Everyone suspected that it was the local earth god Chen Martyr, and they all went to worship.

Baylor sent people to lobby that as long as the banner of "Ming Zhongxing" was pulled out, the banner of the Qing Dynasty was hung on all sides, and a few people led by the four gates were killed, and the rest of the people were spared and not killed, even if they did not shave their hair, he would lead his troops back. Ying Yuan said: "I'd rather kill me alone." The rest are not guilty and shall not be beheaded. "The peace talks are also over.

The people brought wine to the city, raised a glass and drank bitterly, and all living beings were allowed to imitate Chu Ge to make five more songs, so that those who were good at singing would ascend and sing, and they would be harmonious with sheng, flute, flute and drums. At this time, there is no fiber in the sky, the bright moon is in the sky, the dew is thin, and the sword halberd is silent. The Yellow Crossbow Master played the huqin in the enemy tower to the west. The song is tragic and resounding in the sky. The Qing soldiers rushed forward to listen, or scolded angrily, or lamented, and some even cried.

But a few days later, Jiangyin City fell, Yan Yingyuan sat in the enemy tower in Dongcheng, asked for a pen, and wrote on the door: Eighty days with allegiance, the figure of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Taizu; 100,000 people died with one heart and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty.

After the question was completed, he led thousands of people to fight on horseback, killing countless Qing soldiers. Seize the door to the west, can not rush out, Chen Mingyu closed the yamen, personally lit a fire, burned to death a total of 43 men and women, he held a knife to the front of the military road to dismount and the Qing soldiers, seriously wounded, holding the knife stiff on the wall, did not fall.

Feng Houdun hanged himself in Minglun Hall in official clothes, and his wife and sister threw themselves into a well and died. Qi Xun in the middle book, all living beings allowed to use it, closed the door, and set himself on fire.

In the battle, there was an unknown woman in Jiangyin, who inscribed a poem before the martyrdom: The white bones are all over the field, and the lonely loyalty of thousands of miles is not willing to surrender, and the pedestrians are not as good as the dead people.

The next day, there was still a street fight. The Qing army defeated them with fire. The common people died generously, and they all died first, and no one obeyed. The Qing army ordered that those who went out from the east gate should not be killed, and that children under the age of thirteen should not be killed.

Men and women, young and old, threw themselves into the water, went into the fire, killed themselves, and hanged themselves. The Inner and Outer City River, the Tripping River, the Sun Lang Middle Pool, the Yudai River, the Tongta Death River, and the Baojiaochang River were filled with corpses everywhere, and there were several stacks, and there were more than 400 people who threw themselves into the four-eye well.

Because it is as long as 81 days before and after, it is called "Jiangyin 81 days". After the whole city was martyred, no one surrendered. The Qing army lost three princes and eighteen generals; Also participating in the siege were Bo Luo (Prince Duanzhong of Qing) and Nikan (Prince Jing Jing of Qing), who were later crowned princes, and Kong Youde, the king of Qing Gongshun; The Qing army of 240,000 soldiers besieged the city with more than 200 cannons, and lost more than 75,000 soldiers in total.

In Jiangyin, on the 81st day of defending the city, more than 97,000 people died in the city, more than 75,000 people died outside the city, and only 53 people in Jiangyin survived hiding on the temple tower to save their lives.

In the third year of Shunzhi, there was a magistrate Liu Jingxuan who opened the Juncheng River, and there were still white bones piled up at the bottom of the river.

After the city was broken, cavalry of the Qing Dynasty appeared in various villages and towns outside Jiangyin. Subsequently, the Qing soldiers began to loot the village. On November 11, Jiangyin gathered the masses to counterattack the county seat, but finally fled after a long time of hasty attack. The governor Tu Guobao wanted to slaughter the city again, but it was all because Liu Zhixian did not obey his orders and captured the rebels by name; The whole county is safe.

After Zhu Di finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Zhanji and said, "You must not let this tragedy happen, remember!" ”

"Grandson remembered!" Zhu Zhanji said, watching Zhu Di get up from the bed, walking outside step by step, looking at the sun, and said with a sneer: "Second, Di, we have no chance in this life!" ”

"Grandpa?" Zhu Zhanji, after a long time, found that Zhu Di did not have any meaning, and stepped forward to find that Zhu Di had been dead for a long time.

"The Emperor Taishang died!" The eunuch said loudly.

In just a few months, Zhu Zhanji first lost his father, and now he has lost his grandfather Zhu Di, and he was buried in Changling after giving Zhu Di Temple the name "Taizong" and the nickname "Titian Hongdao Gaoming Guangyun Shengwu Shengong Chunren to Emperor Xiaowen".

In the second year, Zhu Zhanji changed his name to Xuande, and at the same time announced that Yao Guangxiao was an undercover agent of Jiannu in the north and the murderer of Zhu Gaochi, the emperor of Hongxi.

"Ruowei, I have avenged you! The next step is to exterminate the Jiannu species! ”

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Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Zhanji, who was personally driving, and said on the city wall: "Big nephew, don't blame the second uncle, we will come to Japan for a long time!" ”

In the first year of Xuande, in August, Zhu Zhanji led an army of 200,000 troops to open up the base area of Jiannu in five ways.

On the way, Zhu Zhanji looked at the books that Zhu Di left for himself to record the characters of the Qing Dynasty, and at this time Zhu Zhanji looked at Ji Yun, a talented man who was regarded as a useless scholar, and the word Xiaolan.

Ji Yun was born in Cui Erzhuang, East Sanli, Jingcheng, Xian County, Hejian Prefecture, Zhili, Yongzheng eight years, participated in the children's examination, and won the nickname of 'prodigy' with excellent results.

In the twelfth year of Yongzheng, eleven-year-old Ji Yun entered Beijing with his father and entered the Yunjing House.

In the fifth year of Qianlong, the seventeen-year-old Ji Yun married the twenty-year-old Ma in the neighboring county. Ji Yun successively had a wife and six concubines.

In the eighth year of Qianlong, 20-year-old Ji Yun participated in the scientific examination and won the first place. In the same year, the eldest son was born, named Ji Ruji, and returned to his hometown to participate in the township examination.

In the nineteenth year of Qianlong, Ji Yun participated in the main examination, ranked twenty-second, after the examination was the palace examination, after the palace examination, the palace examination was unveiled, Ji Yun was the fourth in the second grade, Ren Shu Jishi, and then moved to Zuo Chunfang Zuo Shuzi, and began his official career.

But Ji Yun is not very good, and his speech is a little stammering, but Ji Yun's sycophants are first-class, and he often makes Qianlong laugh.

Qianlong, the son of the loser, thought that Ji Yun was superior in learning, and he couldn't do his best to be an official in other provinces, so he kept him by his side, added four ranks, and kept his concubine. In April of the same year, he was promoted to a bachelor's degree in Hanlin Academy.

At the same time, he collected and scattered from the "Yongle Canon", read all the books entered by the provinces, and the second time was the "Summary", and he was promoted to read. The "Concise Bibliography" of the upper resuming series. 3,503 books, 79,337 volumes; He also revised the "Summary of the Four Libraries" and "Rehe Chronicles".

Later, because of the text prison, Ji Yun was protected by his boss and Shen, but unfortunately Ji Yun's second son Ru Chuan broke the law due to dereliction of duty and tax arrears when he served as the general judge of Jiujiang Mansion, Ji Yun was implicated, and the officials decided to demote him and transfer, and Qianlong knew that the sentence was changed to a three-level demotion to stay in office.

Soon after, one of Qianlong's three major cases, Haisheng's murder of his wife, broke out, and Qianlong asked Ji Yun to try and solve the case, but Ji Yun did not offend He Shen and Ah Gui, and directly pretended to be stupid about Haisheng's murder of his wife, and was later scolded by Qianlong, who knew the truth, for being a useless scholar.

In addition, Ji Yun is very extravagant and wasteful in life, eating the essence of dozens of catties of meat, in addition to having multiple wives and concubines in the family, Ji Yun has also had affairs with other officials' wives many times, but Ji Yun has made meritorious contributions to the renovation of the "Siku Quanshu", Qianlong has promoted Ji Yun many times, but never let him participate in state affairs.

In the 60th year of Qianlong, Ji Yunshu asked the township association to try the "Spring and Autumn Period" to reject the national biography of Hu An, and used the "Zuo Chuan" as the text, and used "Gong" and "Valley", from which he came.

In the tenth year of Jiaqing, Ji Yunfeng co-founded the university scholar, added the prince Shaobao, and managed the country's supervisor. On February 14, he died of a recurrence of asthma at the age of 82.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but scold, the Qing Emperor was incompetent, and such a person could also be appointed as an important minister, no wonder it led to two hundred years of shame, changed to kill, and then looked at the deeds of He Shen.

——To be continued——