"Jianyuanxin is an order that all the officials and officials of the old dynasty in the world are not allowed to be renewed if they are above the eighth rank of Jingzheng.. All relatives within the three generations and the five services are not allowed to serve in new positions. So the world, the rich family are all Prioritize the separation of families..."
"Taiping New Book." References"
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"Good peace, great peace, Taiping army has come to peace..."
"The corrupt officials are all buried, and the local tyrants and evil gentry have no escape..."
"I joined the rebels to fight the court, so I don’t have to worry about getting enough food and clothing..."
"Peace is good, peace is wonderful, the Taiping army will come to the world..."
"Excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes are wiped out, and the taxes and duties are light and fluttering..."
"Everyone is full of farming and weaving, and the poor and the poor are all laughing..."
"Peace is good, peace is wonderful, and the Taiping army will be fair..."
"If you don't snatch or kill or harm people, you will not be merciless if you are a rapist..."
"Science, agriculture, industry and commerce are all in peace, fair business is said to be good..."
Such childish nursery rhymes faintly spread on the streets of Xinyu County, Yuanzhou.
However, in Jiangxi, where most of them are now eroded, there are only a handful of imperial commanders who are still in office; Hu Wenliang, the magistrate of Xinyu County, Yuanzhou, has the word Wushan. Drinking a little wine while worrying and sorrowing, he didn't even dare to send out subordinates and servants to capture or expel these children who sang songs.
Because he knew his own affairs, basically his career was hopeless and there was nowhere to go back. It is the tyrants of the local tycoons who are at odds with each other. They are publicly pushing him to sit on this platform to maintain the place, and the power is the link to coordinate the interests of everyone and advance and retreat.
He was originally born as a servant of a minister in the imperial court. Although his name is Wenliang and Wushan, he is literate and a little literate, and the sword of Wu Ma is always decorated.
Because of his arithmetic, the owner of the family let him take charge of the money and food of the family generals and the trilogy. Later, because of the missed killing of the Kunlun slaves that the family owner loved, he was sent to the Jiangnan army to make atonement. As a result, the only killing in the three-year army was to establish power. Use the inkstone to kill the little school who stole a chicken leg from him.
Then one day, in the inexplicable situation, he was sent to Xinyu County as a military official who was sent to Xinyu County as the under-state guard and catch army to collect money and food, and replaced the former county magistrates, county magistrates and counties who had abandoned their guards and fled. Wei has become the "Bai Lihou" of this place, and he has actually received an urgent letter of appointment from the imperial court.
And his old master also remembered that there was such an unexpected idle hand, and sent some people over, finally making him not the kind of situation where he has no long objects and a bare shot. However, all this has not improved or benefited his current situation at all.
Although he has the prestigious name and authority of the county magistrate, the corresponding orders were originally from more than a dozen towns and villages near the outskirts of the city. As for the rest of the county, they were self-raised, armed and connected. A world of local tyrants and squires.
Especially a few days ago, after the grass thief headed by Huang Ni defeated the Huainan Army in Xinzhou in the east, it can be said that with the vastness of the Jiangnan Dao, there is not much to restrict and hinder their existence; therefore, even the east is facing near. Fuzhou in the north, Hongzhou in the north, and Jizhou in the south have all no longer disappeared.
As for Hengzhou and Tanzhou in the west, those Taiping thieves who like to liquidate and slaughter big households and rob their property are active. As one of the few officials in Yuanzhou, he was caught in this period. It was an extremely desperate situation.
Not to mention that now that you can hear these blatantly blatantly sung words and songs outside the walls of the county government, it also means that these grass thieves under the name "Taiping" are spying on the city and Penetration has also seen the point where it is full of holes. Even if he sends out all the people he can instruct at the moment, in order to prevent future fate, I am afraid that they may not be willing to give any more effort.
As his most powerful supporters, the big clans in the city, I am afraid they have already given up their plans to make up and redeem, and they are busy transferring food, money, and family members from the city to the countryside to get acquainted. So I went there to avoid it for a while.
And he, the official who still sits in the county government office, is obviously the one who is on the table to delay the time and bear the brunt of it, serving as a ready-made target and haystack for the grass thief to settle accounts and vent his anger; I haven’t heard the one sung in the grass thief’s song. Do you understand it straight,
We must know that the so-called "people, farmers, industry and commerce are in peace" in the Taiping thief's statement, only the word "official", which is the head of the five people, is missing. This is a gesture of killing everything that the government belongs to, or not using it for liquidation.
As for the so-called "corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry", it is not these bitter and deep mud legs that have the final say; and in the process of amassing such wealth and wealth, who can protect themselves is not one to be hated. , The complaint omission. I really have to think about it one by one, there is really no big family in this world who can take care of themselves.
So since the day before yesterday, they have pretended to be sick and made excuses, not to come to the county government to discuss and discuss matters. Even the soil group and the genus of the strong man gathered by the various hedgehogs of the city gate have become a little dynamic and suspicious. Therefore, Hu Wenliang can only count as a day out here, and continue to make a deaf and dumb bodhisattva-like decoration in the hall.
He was so self-deprecating and self-satisfied thinking, slowly getting up from his drunkenness; then he stood up full of alcohol, ready to go to the new local concubine to entertain and resolve one or two. I heard the faint noise and shouts coming from a distance. .
"The county's grand event is bad, bad..."
After a few breaths, a staggered figure broke in. He was in the middle of the second hall of the county office and shouted loudly:
"There is a thief... the thief... the thief army has entered the city from the east gate..."
"What... The day has finally arrived."
Hu Wenliang, who was covered in cold sweat, suddenly woke up when he heard the sound, and then sighed and questioned loudly.
"Have you seen clearly where these bandits are..."
"Small... The little ones haven't seen how much, I saw flags covering the sky and the sun everywhere..."
The person who came was also panicked and changed his voice
"This is over, this formation is probably the main formation of the thieves in the east..."
Hu Wenliang's last fluke mind was completely wiped out; since he wasn't those who used the banner of grass thief to rob and rob, then he was obviously fortunate to be seldom reasoned.
"Xing Niang, take out my suicide note and..."
When he staggered back to the back house full of grief and despair and yelled; he happened to see the figure of the concubine who had been blackened and changed into a sarong, and was still carrying a small package. He hurriedly walked out from the side door of the county government office.
Hu Wenliang was not in the mood to stop or intimidate each other, so as to stay with him and die or something; instead, he stepped into a messy bedroom he had been rummaging and began to try to imitate those sages and righteous men who died for the country. The fierce generation left a relatively heroic and decent result for himself.
After arranging the suicide note placed in a prominent place, he first tried to slay himself with a sword.
However, in a moment of desperation, he did not find a suitable knife. In the end, he only found an inch-long bone-handled knife for dividing letterhead; only when he faced the bronze mirror that the concubine was dressing up, he used the tip of the knife to slightly touch his neck. After cutting through a line of skin with force, he was so soft and bloody that he could no longer hold the handle of the knife.
Then he tried to pull out a little concubine's private possession and put it on the beam, wanting to hang himself to death.
However, when he kicked his feet before he was suffocated and struggling for a few breaths, he heard the sound of a piece of torn cloth and silk, and the belt was falling and rolling on the ground; but it was this transparent, light and thin piece. Luo, he broke because of his overly fat figure.
So, he changed his course and started preparing to throw himself into water, and tried the deepest part of the pond with a pole to make sure he wouldn't easily float up.
As a result, when he lifted his foot and fell down, he was struggling and thrashing hard by the icy cold water, and finally he was already on the shore when he came back to his senses; well, he can only do so. Tell yourself: The pool water in this winter is really too cold, making him suffer more before being drowned.
Next, he thought of the self-decision method of drinking medicine recorded in ancient books, but at this moment he found a poison that could kill people quickly; so he thought of another similar alternative method-swallowing gold Self-decision.
It’s just that he rummaged through all the houses, only to find that the slightly valuable gold and silver objects had been wrapped up and taken away by the concubine; in the end he found only a polished brass hairpin; only the thought of turning this thing into After a few paragraphs were swallowed hard, Hu Wenliang couldn't help but hesitate. After all, he eats fish on weekdays only when his concubine picks it up by himself.
Then he thought of trying to hit a pillar, hit a wall, and bite his tongue, but finally gave up because of fear of pain and unbearable bleeding.
"Sorry, let me die on a hunger strike for the country..."
Hu Wenliang finally made up his mind, and the concierge sat down on the rope and closed his eyes.
At this time, the gate of the county government office that had escaped was finally knocked open, and a lot of thieves in toe caps and armors rushed in, smashed and copied them all around; they broke the door and saw him involuntarily dragged down and kicked over After a brutal beating, Hu Wenliang, who was wailing and rolling on the floor, was pushed out like a dead dog.
While they were escorting through the streets, Hu Wenliang, with a beaten hair on his face, also saw fireworks in the city and grass bandits plundering and raging chaos. Lots of property that have been found out are piled up indiscriminately under the eaves and tile edges.
From time to time, people crying and begging and struggling, dragged out of houses and shops, mainly of all kinds of women, and the family members who struggled to hold them and cried. Then, between the impatient grass thieves and the knife, it was another tragedy of parting.
He even saw the little concubine he had run away, unclothed, weeping and stumbling out of a street and alley; then he was hugged by a few grass thieves in the street, struggling to get out. With his body on his shoulders and crying loudly, the grass thieves started to laugh more vigorously, talking and laughing with each other and walking towards the alley.
At this moment, his courage and determination to die on a hunger strike also disappeared and he suddenly understood the basic truth that life is the only way to die since ancient times.
Immediately, he was dragged to a crowd of grass thieves. He was slanted with his legs and leaned on the side of the street. He was holding a piece of mica snail screen big cloud **, roasted red and black mottled in his hand. The leg of lamb, the torn stubble, the placket and the cuffs are full of greasy and minced meat before the leader of the grass thief.
"Deputy Jiejun, this servant is the local magistrate..."
The grass thief leader who brought him over arched his hands:
"Brothers just copied the county treasury, and the empty space can starve the mouse to death... The whereabouts and relations of it, I'm afraid it will land on this servant...".
"Good to say,"
The grass thief army general at the head unintentionally waved the uneaten lamb leg bones, and threw them behind him, which suddenly caused a scramble.
"First give him a set of eight big cuts, then let's light up the five-color lights..."
Seeing the grass thieves approaching with evil spirits and evil spirits, Hu Wenliang was so scared that his soul flew into the sky and burned all the inside. However, he threw the last determination and vow of willingness to die for the country to the sky.
"The king is forgiving, let me explain..."
Before Hu Wenliang's begging for mercy fell, he heard a huge uproar erupting on the city wall again. Then someone yelled vaguely one after another
"Someone has attacked again..."
"Simon's brother can't stop it..."
"Hurry up and gather and go to support..."
"Outrageous, all the children come with me..."
The deputy Jiejun heard the sound and couldn't help but kicked the screen fan of the cloud bed with murderous expression.
"I want to see, it's the shameless and desperate one who dares to visit my Jiejun Chau scene..."
Then, one after another, the shouting and killing were taken over, one after the other, but it was closer to the location of Hu Wenliang in the city. There was also a faint and fleeting clamor and anger:
"This is all a misunderstanding..."
"We are members of the Rebel Army..."
"Fucking it all, let's talk about it..."
Then Hu Wenliang, who knelt down on the ground, saw the grass thief general named Jie Junzhou, already full of frustration and panic. Following the defeat of the other grass thief, he strode without turning his head. He passed the position where Hu Wenliang was, and ran towards the east gate with all his strength.
After another while, Hu Wenliang, who was kneeling on the ground and still not able to figure out the situation, heard the direction they were going, and there was another scream:
"Hey you made it, there is also an ambush here..."
"Everyone outside the door was rounded up..."
"This is not going to give us a way to survive..."
"Everyone is on it, if you fight him one by one..."
"It's broken, the deputy Jiejun is gone, what should I do..."
After a while, Hu Wenliang only felt that the person holding him had also escaped, and cautiously wanted to stand up and move his ghostly and numb legs; then not far away, there was a message from the street. The sound of running in groups once again made him knelt down on the ground and tremble.
Subsequently, many pairs of legs and feet wearing brown leather short boots and thick cotton shoes, Hu Wenliang, who dared not look back from the head, ran past before him. Following these rushing steps, there was also a neat and loud noise in the air. Slogan.
"On the order of the Taiping leader... come to calm the place"
"Do not bully women and children..."
"No murder or fire..."
"It is not allowed to be a rapist..."
"Those who dare to repeat offenders rectify the Fa on the spot.
After Hu Wenliang listened to it several times, he stood up again tremblingly and looked at the situation around Zhou.
I saw these soldiers in blue-gray robes patrolling and yelling back and forth on the streets, and the grass thieves who rushed into the homes and looted them were all tied up one by one or dragged out; Crowds of people bowed their heads down and kneeled down on the street, becoming a new landscape nowadays.
Some of them tried to resist forcibly, or tried to negotiate with their own swords and guns. They were all surrounded and shot and turned to death on the spot. Some children even led the way for them, and broke into some more sheltered places, and identified the fish that slipped through the net that easy to pretend to hide.
On the Dongmen Gate in Xinyu County, Lin Ming, the new 9th Battalion General of the Taiping Army, who was born in the shape of a northern man, was also looking at the situation in the city and giving orders. Following his orders, batch after batch of captured prisoners were sent over.
"Is there something wrong? These are also related to other rebels... Will there be any hindrances and troubles if they are dealt with on the spot..."
And beside him, Li Yuyuan, a lieutenant in the regiment who was temporarily added as his deputy, hesitated to persuade him.
"Why don't you hold it first, and ask the top to do it afterwards..."
"Remember what the leader said in the professor's "Report to the People"
However, Lin Ming yelled at Yizheng sternly.
"Regardless of whether he is an official army, a local regiment, a rebel army, or some other source; as long as he is a bad breed and scum who dares to bully and ravage the people, he must fight against him without hesitation, and kill him as his mother. It’s not just a piece of armour left..."
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At the same time, outside of Yongxin County in Jizhou, Bo Jian Zhu Cun, one of the leaders of the partial division, was also negotiating with a familiar rebel army.
"Lao Bao Song, I am thinking about giving you this opportunity to negotiate face-to-face because of my old friendship..."
"As long as the big and powerful families in the city are cleaned up for me, the Taiping Army will naturally allow you to retreat with all your subordinates..."
"But other than that, you can't kill indiscriminately, you can't set fires, and women can't move. You can just take away the most copied money and silk..."
"But if there is a difference in the above, don't blame me for not giving you a face, so I can live here and do a game..."
"I'm saving it, so I will restrain those killers..."
The general named Song Laobao also responded without hesitation.
"Brother Zhu is satisfied with the discipline..."
In Fenning County of Hongzhou, Gao Jichang was giving a face-to-face instruction to several leaders of the rebel army who had newly invested and attached:
"I need you to do this well before I can make a contribution to the army..."
"I have washed all the powerful and powerful people in the city, and the men will not leave the women. Then you can relax and hand over the army, bring the money and materials you have accumulated, and go to Guangxi. Even if you enjoy the blessing over there..."
"It's easy to say, everything is easy to say..."
Everyone responded in unison
The Zhugong Wharf outside Gangneung City was full of loud drums and loud voices. The envoys from Raozhou’s Grand General’s Mansion also just got off the boat.
"It's actually Army Master Yang... It's really brilliant, I can't ask for it..."
Zhou Huaian used a pleasant tone of the past, and grabbed the opponent's arm first.
At this moment, he has a desire to talk and express. After all, this one can be regarded as one of the few who have helped himself, and one of the few in the General's Mansion who compares the three views on the right way, and can be said to be an object.
After I had this situation and weather, I also wished that there was someone who could stand in a peer-to-peer position and communicate normally, so I tried to put on the pressure.
Feeling the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the other party, Yang Shigu was a little bit dumbfounded, and he couldn't help laughing bitterly. Because, among the subordinates of the General's Mansion who came with him, some expressions of "sure enough" appeared one after another. This is undoubtedly to confirm some gossip and speculation about oneself. (End of this chapter)